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YIMBY Liberation Front @burnstony.bsky.social · 13h

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14h

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Matt Saler @mattsaler.bsky.social · 15h

If we get through this, the #1 response alongside the trials, needs to be an absolutely stacked, muscular Congress.

How we get there through the level of anticonstitutional capitulation and collaboration described here, I don't know

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 14h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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YIMBY Liberation Front @burnstony.bsky.social · 14h

We are past persuasion, it is time for fear

YIMBY Liberation Front @burnstony.bsky.social · 1d

This is pretty good. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social did you produce this?
The sincerest form of flattery

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

“I wish I could be the guy who says, ‘everyone calm down; things have been just as bad before, and we got through it.’ But I can’t be that reasonable-sounding moderate floating above it all. Things are very bad. People should be far more alarmed than they are.”

open.substack.com/pub/michaelw...

The Emerging Shape of American Politics

Dynamism v. Reaction / Open v. Closed

open.substack.com

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YIMBY Liberation Front @burnstony.bsky.social · 1d

Personally I want the pro Democracy Republicans to the sharp end of the stick

Let your former colleagues know, the Democrats might forgive and forget but that you will do everything to restore law and order and hold these MAGA criminals to account

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 1d

Oh wait no, he’s the dumb-looking one on the other side, phew 😅

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 1d

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YIMBY Liberation Front @burnstony.bsky.social · 1d

We will likely get at least one more chance at non-fascist government but if there are no consequences and no accountability we will be right back here in no time

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YIMBY Liberation Front @burnstony.bsky.social · 1d

@jvl.bsky.social who at the @thebulwark.com is in charge of accountability. Who is planning the retribution against the MAGA criminals. This all important task clearly can’t be left to the Democrats.

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Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 1d

In historical -- not cultural -- terms, MO wasn't part of the old Northwest Territory and, indeed, was a slave state that became part of the Confederacy. PA and NY weren't part of the Old Northwest Territory either, and were settled well before parts Westward and governed by Eastern capitals.

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YIMBY Liberation Front @burnstony.bsky.social · 1d

As Michigander I always thought of us as the most Midwestern state, your book kind of changed my mind. after your book Midwestern in my mind translated as pretty close to Ohio or Ohioish

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 1d

Any Project 2029-style rebuilding project that tables confrontation with the Supreme Court will doom itself. www.offmessage.net/p/the-suprem...

The Supreme Court's Dastardly Plan Makes Court Reform Obligatory

If Democrats can't avoid the trap Republican justices are setting, we'll never recover from the Trump fiasco.

www.offmessage.net

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

The MAGA #SCOTUS is enabling "Trump engage in a spree of autocratic vandalism that broadly corrupts" the fed. govt but will likely shut down those "king-like" powers if Ds are positioned to take over.

@brianbeutler.bsky.social ▶️ why GOP operatives in SCOTUS robes have made court reform essential. ↘️

"Thus, over the first months of his second term, the court has settled into a new rhythm: When Trump needs freedom from injunctions and restraining orders imposed by lower courts, the Republican justices race to his rescue, typically without explaining themselves. Then, they hit the brakes, giving him plenty of running room to engage in illegality before issuing decisions on the merits.

This is dirty pool, and the justices aren’t even really trying to conceal it. But I don’t think most Democratic critics of the court have thought through how this approach can be used to give Trump a one-time only pass to break laws and steal spoils that will never apply, under their eventual precedents, to future administrations.

Perhaps the Republican justices simply think there will never be another transfer of power. But their approach is consistent with another strategic objective, too: allowing Trump to engage in a spree of autocratic vandalism that broadly corrupts the federal government, before shutting down his claims to king-like power in a way that prevents Democrats from quickly fixing things in 2029."

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 1d

If a Democrat doesn't promise retribution, I don't think he or she is winning the primary. We need to make them fear reprisal.

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

So, imagine a 2028 that ends with a normal election and a Democratic president.

Does that president punish CBS? Does he kick it out of the Brady room's front row? Does his FCC go after its licenses? Does his FTC probe the Skydance deal?

No, probably not. No fear of reprisal if power shifts back.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Do CBS News executives understand that MAGA will not be in power forever? I genuinely think this is lost on a lot of people. They've gotten scammed by bad actors into believing Trump's 2024 win represented something seismic and even permanent. I predict they'll look back on this as a serious error.

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prairieguy2623.bsky.social @prairieguy2623.bsky.social · 1d

Read this story lede again. And then ask yourself if you can think of any reason why long-time subscribers like myself stopped and have no intention of ever giving you a single fucking dime.

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YIMBY Liberation Front @burnstony.bsky.social · 1d

I think these lyrics need to be focused grouped

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 1d

Honestly kinda hate the way that both Eric Adams and his detractors have both turned visiting Albania into kind of a joke. NYC has a huge Albanian and Kosovar community and could learn a lot from them! As mayor, my first trip abroad will be to Yzberisht, and you heard it here first.

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Becca's Mullet @beccasmullet.bsky.social · 1d

This post might read better as, "Bike helmet laws are a scam." Ask me about the guy I was in PT with. We were both mangled and had broken necks. But he was wearing a helmet and I was not, so he still works as a lawyer. I haven't worked full-time since. He still has nightmares, but I,... I forget.

YIMBY Liberation Front @burnstony.bsky.social · 1d

Helmets are a scam